Jack Weatherford is the Chair of the Department of Anthropology at Macalester College in Minnesota. He is a specialist in tribal peoples and the author of Indian Givers: How the Indians of the Americas Transformed the World (Crown, 1988, Ballentine 1989 - Fawcett pb sold 178,561 copies) as well as Native Roots (Crown, 1991) Savages and Civilization (Crown 1994) and The History of Money (Crown 1998).
